We will be using the ESSP computer lab in 13/102 on Friday
afternoons. It may or may not be possible for you to have access to this room at
other times. See the person in charge.

At MPC:

The Math Lab in PS-205 may be available to you free. See the
schedule of hours posted by the door. Its computers are already set up with the
browsers and plugins listed below. Talk with the person in charge to get a
log-in account.

At home:

In order to be able to view many of the resources you'll see
referred to in this site, you'll need a PC computer with at least a Pentium II
[Pentium III better, IV better still] with at least 128 MB RAM and
reasonably fast internet connection. You should have Windows 98 or later
installed. (I'm not a Mac person, so I can't advise you with any confidence as
to what equivalent setup will suffice.) Click on the icons or the URLs
supplied below to download the indicated programs. You can also access these
sites -- and many more -- from my "Downloads"
page. And you'll find scads of other chemistry resources at
http://www.mpcfaculty.net/ron_rinehart/index.html#fastfind
.
There are separate pages at this site devoted to organic chemistry and
spectroscopy.

I normally use IE 5.5 for everyday surfing, but many sites
employing MDL's Chime molecular visualization program only work when viewed with
Netscape. Netscape 4.76 or 4.77 are the preferred versions. Avoid Netscape 6.x
at all costs! Some Chime sites work with either Netscape or IE versions of
Chime.

MDL Chime 2.6 is available at www.mdli.com/download/
make sure you download and install both MS IE and Netscape versions.
Some Chime sites work with either Netscape or IE versions of Chime, so it pays
to have both ready.

QuickTime Playerhttp://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
for streaming videos and other applicationsbe careful when you install this puppy to NOT let it
become the default for any file types [GIF, JPEG, etc.] which you don't want it
to be!

Real Player 8.0 Basic If you want the free, bare-bones
player, click on the long URL below:

or go tohttp://www.real.com/and follow their links to >> MORE FREE DOWNLOADS >> REALPLAYER
>> PREVIOUS VERSIONS >> RealPlayer 8 Basic (on the bottom left
side of the last page you reach). Or, for $9.95 get RealOne, a new
version with many non-chemistry applications.

Chemistry Drawing Programs:

These are not required
for organic chemistry, but you will find it highly desirable to have one or both
of these programs installed. MDL IsisDraw is a very user-friendly drawing
program, and the structures so produced are easily copied and pasted into MS
Word documents, such as lab reports.

ACD Labs ChemSketch™http://www.acdlabs.com/download/
In addition to the really useful ChemSketch program with its many
features including lots of structure templates and a large library of
predrawn structures, you can download a variety
of other freeware at this site, including programs for generating and
interpreting 1H
and 13C NMR spectra and for naming organic compounds.

Cambridge Software ChemOffice™http://www.cambridgesoft.com/
This one is NOT free, but has a suite of programs that the serious organiker
will find really useful, including CS ChemDraw™, CS Chem3D™ and CS
ChemFinder™, which is also accessible at their website for those who register.
Many other manufacturers offer products as plugins for CS ChemOffice™, which
lets you save your structures in a wide variety of formats.

The Chemical Thesaurus by Mark Leach, University of Salfordhttp://www.meta-synthesis.com Free, packed with an incredible amount of information on organic
and inorganic reactions cross-indexed in a large number of ways.

Not required, not free, but highly recommended:

Chem1
Concept Builder by Stephen Lower at Simon Fraser University
http://www.chem1.com
A very useful set of tutorials at a very reasonable price. Truly effective and
attractive presentations designed to promote real understanding of
a wide variety of fundamental chemical concepts. You can
download a partially-functional tryout version. If you like it as much
as I did, the full version is around thirty dollars -- money very well spent!